Invented by Accident

INFORMATIONAL TEXTS ™

Yum, Yum, Yum! Favorite Foods Invented by Accident

by Jeffrey B. Fuerst

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LITERARY ANALYSIS How to use this book Yum, Yum, Yum! • Respond to and interpret text 1. Learn about informational texts by reading • Make text-to-text connections pages 2–3. Get background information about • Analyze the genre the topic on pages 4–5. (Shared reading) READING SKILLS 2. Read the articles for enjoyment. (Leveled texts) Favorite Foods Comprehension 3. Reread the articles and answer the questions • Identify cause and effect on pages 11, 15, and 21. (Shared reading) Invented by Accident • Summarize information 4. Reread the last article. Pay attention to the Word Study comments in the margins. See how an author • Word origins writes an informational text. (Leveled text) Tier Two Vocabulary 5. Follow the steps on pages 22–23 to write (see Glossary) your own informational text. (Shared reading) WRITING SKILLS 6. Complete the activity on the inside back Writer’s Tools cover. Answer the follow-up questions. • Strong ending (Shared reading) Writer’s Craft Three Informational Texts • How to write an informational text by Jeffrey B. Fuerst THEME CONNECTIONS • Invention and Technology Table of Contents Credits Project Editor: Jeffrey B. Fuerst Focus on the Genre: Informational Texts ...... 2 Creative Director: Laurie Berger *The reading level assigned to this Senior Art Director: Glenn Davis text is based on the genre examples Director of Photography: Doug Schneider Inventions by Design . . . And by Accident ...... 4 only. “Focus on the Genre,” “Reread,” and “Writer’s Craft” features were not Photo Editor: Diane French leveled. These sections are intended English Language Arts Advisor: Donna Schmeltekopf Clark Chocolate Chip Cookies ...... 6 for read-aloud or shared reading. Photo credits: Page 4A: © Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis; Page Benchmark Education Company 4B: © William Radcliffe/Science Faction/Corbis; Page 5A: Ice Pops ...... 12 629 Fifth Avenue • Pelham, NY • 10803 courtesy of Shay Alspach; Page 5B: Photo provided courtesy of Crayola LLC and used with permission. © 2000–2011 Potato Chips ...... 16 ©2012 Benchmark Education Company, LLC. Crayola. Silly Putty® is a registered trademark of Crayola LLC.; All rights reserved. No part of this publication Page 6B: Pat Glennon; Pages 6C, 6D, 16B: Library of Congress; may be reproduced or transmitted in any form Page 7B: © H. Armstrong Roberts/CORBIS; Page 12: courtesy The Writer’s Craft: Informational Texts ...... 22 or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any of Douglas Varga; Page 13 A: © Bettmann/CORBIS; Page information storage or retrieval system, without 17: Courtesy of the Saratoga Spring History Museum; Page Glossary ...... 24 permission in writing from the publisher. 19A, 19B: Courtesy of Utz Quality Foods, Inc.; Page 20: Doug Schneider Printed in Guangzhou, China. Make Connections Across Texts . . . Inside Back Cover XXXX-XX-XXXX For information about ordering, call Toll-Free 1-877-236-2465 ISBN: 978-1-4509-5317-7 or visit our Web site: www.benchmarkeducation.com.

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The information What is an informational text? is accurate, and The text has a the facts have The text uses Informational texts are nonfiction texts that present strong beginning that been checked. primary sources information in an accurate and organized way. They are often hooks the reader. when appropriate. about a single subject such as animal behavior, an event or time period in history, or a scientific discovery. They may be about any topic, such as an annual event or a hobby. The Features of an research report that you write for a school assignment is an The text has Informational The information informational text. So is an article you read in your favorite a strong ending includes graphics that keeps readers Text that support fashion magazine or on a Web site. A newspaper account of thinking. the text. a local election and a history book chapter on a famous battle are additional examples of informational texts. The text includes multiple The text has perspectives so that a logical organization What is the purpose of informational text? a reader can draw of major concepts. Informational texts have one main purpose: to inform. his or her own conclusions. The best informational writing does this in a way that keeps readers’ attention. It pulls readers in, making them want to keep reading and learn more about the topic. Who writes informational texts? Writers who know their topic well write good informational How do you read an informational text? texts. They do this by becoming mini-experts on the When you read an informational text, look for facts and subject they are writing about. They make sure that they the details that support them. Read critically to make sure support the information in their work with historical facts, conclusions make sense. If there are different ways to look at an scientific data, graphics like time lines and diagrams, and event or situation, make sure they are given. Ask yourself: Did I expert evidence. They provide more than one person’s point learn something new from this text? Do I want to know more about of view. They use primary sources—firsthand information it? Can I draw my own conclusions from what I have read? such as journals and photographs.

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homas Edison uring World War II, people wanted a worked nonstop substitute for rubber. Engineer James Wright Tfor months to Dmade a rubbery material that bounced. It make a long-lasting could stretch like taffy, too. For years, scientists tried lightbulb. Alexander to find a practical use for the bouncy, stretchy stuff. Graham Bell worked A toy store owner and a salesman had a different for years to invent idea. In 1950, the salesman, Peter Hodgson, decided the telephone. At on the name Silly Putty. He first he failed. Then put some inside a plastic egg. he, too, succeeded. A favorite toy was hatched. Of course, not all Read on to learn how inventors end up some other accidents led to the creating what they invention of some favorite foods. set out to make. Alexander Graham Bell (above) and his design Sometimes, though, for the telephone. they end up inventing something else, and something quite wonderful, by accident. Jamess Silly Putty ad Wrightht from the 1950s Tools Writers Use

for informational texts: asking a question, retelling facts, A Strong Ending summarizing big ideas, or making a statement that keeps Have you ever finished a nonfiction book and said, “Wow! readers thinking. A strong ending keeps the topic alive I want to learn more about this topic!” That is often the sign in readers’ minds. It may also help readers make of a strong ending. Authors use different types of endings connections to the topic. 4 5

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deal.d Ruth let the European settlers brought small, flat cakes to America companyc print her in the 1600s. The English called their sweet treats tea reciper on the back cakes. The Scottish called them shortbread. The Dutch ofo the package of called them koekje (KOOK-yeh), which means “little chocolatec morsels. cake.” According to The Oxford Companion to Food, the Ruth got free word “cookie” was first used in print in 1703. chocolate for In colonial America, sugar cost a lot of money life. A trained and was hard to get. Bakers sweetened food with dietitian, Ruth molasses, a syrup made from boiling fruits and continued to cook and bake. She vegetables. The favorite cookie from colonial times was also wrote dozens of popular cookbooks, including Toll the snickerdoodle, a sugar cookie rolled in cinnamon. House Tried and True Recipes, which is still in print. The So the next time you eat a cookie, think about Wakefields sold the Toll House Inn in 1966. Ruth died in its history. Then take a big bite and smile. 1977 at age seventy-two. Cookie History %6'8-'3')%2 The chocolate chip cookie is part of history. Where Scotland, does the cookie story begin? For that answer, we need shortbread, to look in a few places. 17th century People who study the history of food believe that ancient Romans were eating hard, cracker-like bread Holland, koekje, 17th century around 300 C.E. They called the food bis coctum (BIS KAHK-tem), which means “twice baked.” Small, sweet Europe 9VEP6MZIV cakes were being served in Persia by the seventh century. 2368, %80%28-' Rome, hard, cracker-like Why Persia (modern-day Iran)? It was one of the first 3')%2 England, tea cakes, 17th bread, 3rd century C.E. places where sugarcane was grown. Persian sweet cakes century N made their way to Europe. By the fourteenth century, Persia, small, sweet W E cookbooks included cookie recipes. Around that time, cakes, 7th century C.E. S IRANIRA a cookie-like treat was sold on the streets of Paris. SAUDI Africa ARABIA 8 9

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Analyze the Text • What two things does the author write about in this text? • Explain how Ruth Wakefield discovered the fact that chocolate pieces do not melt while baking. • How have cookies changed since Roman days? • On page 9, the author says that colonial Americans didn’t have sugar and used molasses instead. What does this tell you about the colonists? Analyze the Tools Writers Use: A Strong Ending Look at the ending of this article. • On page 9, what kind of ending did the author include? (Summary, retelling, statement, or question?) • What did you like about this ending? • Did you come away wanting to learn more? Chocolate Chipbits Why and about what? • In 1997, a group of third-grade students from Focus on Words: Word Origins Somerset, Massachusetts, was responsible for A word’s origin is the history of that word, or where the the chocolate chip cookie being named the word comes from. Many words in English come from words official cookie of the state. in other languages, including Latin and Greek. For example, ingredient comes from the Latin word ingredi and means • The chocolate chip cookie is the most popular “to go or to step into.” When you think about it, adding cookie in the United States. One ingredients means adding one thing into another. Knowing out of three cookies baked in tthehe the history of a word can help you understand its meaning. U.S. is a chocolate chip cookie.kie. Make a chart like the one below. Use a dictionary to find the origin and meaning of the words from the text. • Beyond semi-sweet chocolate, Nestlé also makes chips in Page Word Origin and Meaning Dictionary Definition mint, butterscotch, white 7 original 7 traditional chocolate, peanut butter, 7 texture and milk chocolate flavors. 8 dietitian

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Y09418_G3_Yum_BK.indd 10 8/29/11 2:37 PM Y09418_G3_Yum_BK.indd 11 8/29/11 2:37 PM of the first part of his last name, and icicle. His children, though, called them “Pop’s ’sicles.”” Ice Frank loved that name! He applied for a patent for a “handled, frozen confection (sweet food) Pops or ice lollipop.’’ Two years later, Frank sold the name, Popsicle, to Frank Epperson with his granddaughter a company in New York. He still earned money on the sale of every Popsicle. The Popsicle became very popular very quickly. These ice pops were made with a stick of birch wood. One ppop cost five cents. A few years later, the “twin” ack in 1905, people often made their own soft ppopop was inventedinvented.. The idea was that two drinks. They mixed flavored soda powder and cchildrenhildren coucouldld ssharehare one frozen treat. Bwater with a stick. That’s just what eleven-year- AccorAccordingding to tthehe Popsicle Web site, old Frank Epperson of San Francisco did one cold two bbillionillion PopPopsicless are sold every night. He left his drink on the porch. The temperature yyear.ear. HundrHundredse of millions are dropped. The drink froze with the stick still in it. eateneaten eacheach year just in the Frank showed his friends. He may have given his UnitedUnited States. There are soft-drink accident a lick. But he didn’t do anything more than thirty flavors of about it until 1923. Popsicle.PopsicPop l Orange and cherry As an adult, Frank started a business. He sold seven areare the most popular. flavors of his “frozen drink on a stick” on a beach in California. He called his treats Epsicles: a combination

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Y09418_G3_Yum_BK.indd 12 8/29/11 2:37 PM Y09418_G3_Yum_BK.indd 13 8/29/11 2:37 PM ICE POPS Reread the Informational Text Popsicle Relatives Popsicles are a modern invention. But people have enjoyed icy treats since long before the invention of freezers. As far back as 62 C.E., Nero, the ruler of Analyze the Text Rome, enjoyed flavored ices. He had his slaves bring • What is this text about? snow and ice from the mountains. He mixed it with • Frank Epperson did not mean to make a frozen treat. What word in honey and nuts. the first paragraph tells us this? Nero’s cool concoction was the great-great-great • Look at the first two sentences grandfather of today’s snow cone. Fruit-flavored syrups in Popsicle Relatives. What are dripped onto balls of crushed ice. The ices are compare-and-contrast word does the author use? served in paper cups. In Puerto Rico, snow cones • What is a piragua? are shaped like a pyramid instead of a ball. The treat is called a piragua (pee-RAH-gwah). Analyze the Tools Writers Use: A Strong Ending Shaved ice is a cousin of the snow cone. Look at the ending of this article. Shaved ice has a fine, smooth texture. • What kind of ending did the author include? (Summary, retelling, statement, or question?) Different types • What did you like about this ending? of shaved-ice • Did you come away wanting to learn more? treats are licked Why, and about what? and slurped in Focus on Words: Word Origins Central and South America, Southeast Knowing the history of a word can help you understand its meaning. Make a chart like the one below. Use a dictionary Asia, Korea, and to find the origin and meaning of the words from the text. Japan. How do they compare to Page Word Origin and Meaning Dictionary Definition Popsicles? Taking 12 combination a trip around the 13 patent world to find out A piragua is a 14 modern pyramid-shaped 14 concoction would be cool! frozen treat.

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Y09418_G3_Yum_BK.indd 14 8/29/11 2:38 PM Y09418_G3_Yum_BK.indd 15 8/29/11 2:38 PM George was proud of his cooking. He did not like it when people sent back his food. A customer complained that his fried potatoes were too thick. George thought he Potato Chips would teach the customer a lesson. George cut the potatoes thinner The author hooks mericans spend more than six than they should be. He re-fried the reader with an interesting billion dollars a year on potato them. The customer complained fact about potato chips. What do President Thomas they were still too thick. Back chips. Then he A GGeorge CCrum Jefferson and an angry cook have to do asks an unusual to the kitchen they went. and Kate Wicks question on the with the creation of America’s favorite Now George was really mad. He subject of potato snack food? sliced the potatoes so thin they could chips to keep readers’ interest. Thomas Jefferson was the third not be eaten with a fork. He cooked The question is president of the United States. Before them until they were brown and crispy. answered in the next paragraph. that, he was ambassador to France. Then he added extra salt. George He brought french fried potatoes back wanted the customer to think, “Yuck!” with him in the late 1700s. Thick, But George’s plan backfired! The deep-fried potatoes became popular. So customer loved the crispy, salty, paper- The author puts it was no surprise to find french fries thin potatoes. So did the other people “potato crunches” on the menu at Moon Lake Lodge in at the table. Soon, George’s “potato in quotes because these are the August 1853. When a customer sent crunches” were on the menu. exact words said an order of fried potatoes back to the George may have been temperamental, by George Crum. kitchen, however, it made food history. but he was a smart businessman. In Moon Lake Lodge was in Saratoga 1860, he opened his own restaurant. Springs, New York. Wealthy and important He put baskets of Saratoga Chips, as people went there on vacation. George they were named, on tables in the dining Thomas Jefferson Crum was the cook. He was part Native room. Customers could snack on them American and part African American. before their meal. 16 17

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George ran his restaurant until 1890. He Other people started potato chip died in 1914 at age ninety-two. Although businesses in different parts of the George gets credit for inventing the country. Num Num and Blue Bell potato The author presents a potato chip, some people believe his chips are no longer made. But Wise different point of sister should get credit, too. Kate Wicks and Utz potato chips, both from view about who should get credit worked in the kitchen. It is likely that Pennsylvania, are still in business today.. for inventing she actually sliced and fried the first Utz started in 1921. Sallie Utz cookedd potato chips. potato chips. the chips at home. She could make The SStoryt Continues about 50 pounds of chips in an hour. Her husband, William, delivered MMaking potato chips was hard orders to small grocery stores in work.wo Potatoes were washed, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Stores peeled,p and sliced by hand. sold potato chips from barrels. Small amounts, or batches, By 1982, the Utz factory covered were cooked in large pots 300,000 square feet and made called kettles. How did George 10,000 pounds of potato chips an the Utz delivery Crum’s handmade chips get truck in the 1920s hour. Today, Utz makes one million fromfr his restaurant in upstate pounds of potato chips per week. NewNew York to just about every In 1926, Laura Scudder of Monterey store aacross the United States? The author Park, California, put her potato chips presents the William Tappendon of Cleveland, into waxed paper bags. The chips stayed information in a The author Ohio, was the first person to make logical way. He is fresher longer. Bags of potato chips telling about key researched the and distribute potato chips. Starting topic thoroughly could now be made in one place events in potato in 1895, he made potato chips in his chip history in and checked and sold in stores far away. facts. He includes kitchen. He sold them to local stores. chronological, information, and It would take two more inventions or time, order. Then he turned a barn in his backyard a quote, from an and a salesman to make potato chips organization that into what the Snack Food Association a national food. In the late 1920s the is knowledgeable says is “one of the first potato chip about potato chips. mechanical potato peeler was invented. factories.” 18 19

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How does an author write an Topic: Potato chips Focus: The history of potato chips Informational Text? Question: How were potato chips invented? Reread “Potato Chips” and think about what the author did to Main Point Details write this informational text. How did he keep a narrow focus? How did he help you understand the text? Introduction Six billion dollars’ worth sold each year in U.S. Thomas Jefferson, ambassador to France, brings 1. Decide on a Topic french fries to U.S. in late 1700s. Choose something you are interested in and want to Invention by 1853, Moon Lake Lodge, Saratoga Springs. know more about. accident by an George Crum, cook, proud of his cooking. Thought he’d angry cook teach lesson to customer who returned undercooked Narrow Your Focus fries. 2. George sliced potatoes very thin, overcooked, salty. Jeffrey Fuerst knew he couldn’t write everything there is to know “Lesson” backfired! Customer loved the “crunches,” about potato chips, so he narrowed the focus to the history of and they were put on the menu. potato chips. Good writers enjoy researching their topics. George Crum Opens own place 1860, puts Saratoga Chips on tables in baskets for customers to snack on. 3. Write a Question About Your Focus Include food historian’s belief that Crum’s sister, Questions lead to answers, so turn your focus into a question. who worked in the kitchen with George, deserves credit as coinventor. 4. Research Your Focus History—after W. Tappendon, Cleveland, 1895. First to make and sell Become the “expert” by reading articles on the Internet, books, George chips to stores. Opens first factory (quote from Snack and newspaper articles and interviewing people connected with Food Association). your topic. For instance, Jeff used research findings from the Snack Other companies make potato chips. Some still in Food Association. You want to show readers that you know what business. Sallie Utz makes chips in her house; her you are talking about. husband sells them. Chips sold from barrels (important). Laura Scudder, California, 1926, invents waxed bags for 5. Organize Your Information chips. Can sell chips farther away. Before writing an informational article, make a chart or table like Invention of mechanical potato peeler and frying the one on the next page that outlines the main points. For each machine. Made mass-produced chips possible. main point, identify supporting details. You don’t have to write full Herman Lay 1930s traveling salesman brings chips to the South. sentences. These are your notes. Remember, however, that there and Lay’s Opens Lay’s in Nashville, TN., 1939. First to advertise chips should be a logical progression of ideas. potato chips nationally. First chips sold across the country. Lay’s today has 45 ﬂ avors. 6. Write Your Informational Text As you write, develop each main point with your supporting details. Conclusion Potato chips popular around the world today. Remember, you want people to enjoy reading your article as well Mention some weird (fun) ﬂ avored chips from around the world to keep readers thinking about chips. as learning something new. 22 23

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combination (kahm-bih-NAY-shun) the result of putting Chocolate Chip Ice Pops Potato Chips two or more things together (page 12) Cookies concoction (kun-KAHK-shun) a food or drink made by mixing things together (page 14) Topic dietitian (dy-eh-TIH-shun) person who gives advice Important about food and healthful eating (page 8) people included distribute (dih-STRIH-byoot) to deliver something to a store or business; to spread over Important an area (page 18) history included mechanical (mih-KA-nih-kul) having or using machinery (page 19) Type of ending

modern (MAH-dern) from the present or recent past; Ending (What do using recent methods or ideas (page 14) you think about as you finish the original (uh-RIJ-uh-nul) the first one (page 7) text?) patent (PA-tent) an official document that gives a person or company the right to be the Analyze the Informational Texts only maker or seller of a product for a specific time period (page 13) Use your graphic organizer to help you answer these questions. temperamental (tem-per-MEN-tul) quick to become • How are these informational texts alike? angry or upset; overly sensitive (page 17) • How are these informational texts different? texture (TEKS-cher) the structure of something; the • What could readers learn from these informational texts? way a substance feels to the touch (page 7) • What personal connections can you make to these traditional (truh-DIH-shuh-nul) being handed down informational texts? by word of mouth, in writing, or through • What question(s) do you have about food inventions after examples from one generation to another reading these informational texts? (page 7) • Which food invention is your favorite? Why?

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Three Informational Enjoy all of these Nonfiction Readers’ & Writers’ Texts About Food Genre Workshop titles. Inventions

Chocolate chip Biography Informational Texts cookies, ice pops, and potato chips all have something in common—besides being yummy treats. Each one was invented

by mistake. How did Journals Personal Narratives these snack-accidents happen? Read this book to find out.

Persuasive Letters Procedural Texts

Jeffrey B. Fuerst Reviews: Books writes and edits fiction and nonfiction books for kids. He likes to cook, too, but so far, he hasn’t invented anything new, although peanut butter– flavored hot chocolate is on his “to do” list.

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